The International Day of Rural Women was celebrated in the district on Tuesday as elsewhere in the country and the globe in a befitting manner. This year’s theme of the day was “Rural Women and Girls Building Climate Resilience”. Marking the day, SKS Foundation, a non-government organization,…

A woman was among four persons sentenced to death by a court yesterday over the murder of her husband in 2017. The convicts are Shyamal Pramanik, 27, Asmat Ali Mandal, 47, Mukul Hossain, 26, and Dolena Begum, 42. Dolena was the second wife of Hanif Ali of Arkandi village in Bheramara upazila. According…

A total of 3,522 fishermen families of four upazilas in the district got 70.44 tonnes of rice as food assistance from the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock yesterday to pass Hilsa ban period without food crisis. According to sources the government imposed a 22-day ban on the netting, selling, marketing,…

‘Son kills father’ in Pabna UNB, Pabna A man was killed, allegedly by his son, during a family feud at Tebaria village in Chatmohor upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Khandaker Sanwar Hossain, 57, a security guard of Ishwardi Post office. Sheikh Nasir Uddin, officer-in-charge…